Kurd who pushed passenger onto the Tube tracks was in the UK because he had been refused asylum in Germany

A homeless Kurdish migrant who tried to murder a Tube passenger by pushing him in front of an oncoming train has been jailed for life. Brwa Shorsh, 24, was smuggled into the UK on the back of a lorry in 2018 after he was refused asylum in Germany, Inner London Crown Court heard. Shorsh, who had been sleeping rough on a bench on the Victoria line platform, leapt up and sent postman Tadeusz Potoczek flying onto the track in front…